Various, Outrage, Rabbatz, Natural Statement, Hitzefrei, Lakeside Park, Nervous Breakdown, The Ten, Heavy Ride, Spionageabwehr, Moderne Heimarbeit, Scan, Pangea, Southwind, Stainless Steel

Vancouver Punk

The west-coast first wave that coined 'hardcore' — political, tuneful and absurdly early.

Detroit Proto-Punk

Pull this thread and you get Michigan guitar noise from 1969 ballrooms to 1999 basements, unbroken.